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Frankly, I found this movie—while entertaining, and certainly well-made—a bit...bratty.

Look, I realize that I'm about the only person on Earth who liked X3—though I'm still inclined to just forget about most of Origins: Wolverine, just from apathy—but this film just felt like an exercise for the director to throw away as much as he could, good or bad, from any of the films he didn't helm.* With a few grudging concessions towards elements that were clearly done better outside his grip.

...Like Mystique being more than a naked blue murderer with no lines—oh, well, uh, that's because the character we first met is all tragic and fallen and morally compromised by killing!** Magneto doing more with his powers than levitate a couple of tons of aluminum, some pistols, and iron filings? Oh, well, um—Golden Gate Bridge nothin', he's going to drop a stadium on the White House! And capture Richard Nixon! And threaten to publicly execute him with the old gun trick!

But mostly back to Singer-basics...for a work that's a bit dreary, portentous, and admittedly sure as hell more respectful to the source material than a two-hour dayglo toy commercial.

And one that shaves down Storm and Cyclops' parts down to two lines or less. The most important part. :D

*Because, y'know, he'd skipped town to make a quarter-billion dollar love letter to Richard Donner.**She'd get a pass on the killing if she had metal claws, smoked a cigar, and a reverse-psychobilly haircut.

...okay, that part doesn't really work as snark, granted, as that actually would be kind of awesome.

1. Danny Houston as Stryker...seriously, he was in Nam when he recruited Logan and Victor, in this film he's like under 30...how many US Army Majors are under 30?

2. And uh, why wasn't Wolverine in Nam? The war is ending for the USA, he should be there with Victor...don't give me "that film didn't happen", it may not have after this, but it did before (wait, what???)

3. How about a reason behind Kitty's mental way back machine...a character with no mental powers before? (Said everyone)

4. How about not killing off First Class characters since this franchise resurrects people at whim, just mentioning who is dead is like a challenge for the next film to bring them back. Hey, this makes sense, Emma Frost Jr was the one in X-Men Origins Wolverine. See...it was her clone or some crap.

5. To leave the Nam scene on the cutting room floor, because none of the mutant Mystique saves does anything later on. OR WHY WAS TOAD IN THIS MOVIE? Standard X-Men "look at all the character who are in the film but do nothing!", been going on since the third movie.

6. Is there a reason why Beast's treatment for paralysis and mutant powers wasn't mentioned in previous films?

7. . An explanation was to why it's always night in the future or is that post nuclear cloud cover?

8. What was the point of Mystique as Stryker having them pull Wolverine out of a river she couldn't have possibly known he was in? Now, it had just been Styker, then at least timeline recorrects itself so Logan can become Weapon X, but then they mucked it up with Mystique.

9. At what point in the 1950s (?) was young Magneto banging Quicksilver's mom?

10. There wasn't much motivation for Trask. He was just evil weapon's developer. He makes Stryker seem well-rounded. And he never got his appropriated come uppance, because preventing it was the plot of the damned film. Hmmm...

11. Is it wrong I wanted Dan Hedaya or Anthony Hopkins to appear as Nixon?

12. JFK was a mutie? I'm gonna guess he didn't have healing powers.

13. Where was future Pyro? And the Juggernaut, bitch? Okay...probably all dead.

14. Would the US government let killer robot tech lie abandoned after one mutant mishap? No.

15. Did Trask really think North Vietnam had the capital to invest in Sentinel tech?

16. What was the future blackbird powered with, a small nuke?

Also, while a wonderful idea on paper, the future scenes kinda sucked. How many times can we watch Sunspot and Colossus die? How many times can I misspell Colossus? Why could Magneto wad all the sentinel carriers into a ball and hurl them into outer freaking space? Or Blink blink them into an active volcano? (I have no idea who that character even is). Never saw future Wolverine vs Future Sentinel. In fact, we all knew that everyone would die and things would be fixed just in the nick of time. Damn, it's all so....COMIC BOOKY.

It was the best X-MEN movie since the second, including the Wolverine ones. That's not high praise. I enjoy the films, but they are no...I cannot think a solid film franchise, even one that last just 3 films, maybe Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, even it got trite in the third movie. So fans give X-Men some flak, but usually by movie 3, a series has gone to poop on some level. Heh. I wrote poop.

Again, can we please have an actual Indian play Warpath? Is that too much to ask for? His tan comes from his Asian mom. His alleged Indian blood comes from his father's side, but it's apparently been homeopathically diluted.

During the Lone Ranger debacle, Stewart got really defensive about Depp not being an Indian. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

I liked the first half a lot but then the second half got really dumb.They know Trask is building Sentinels & has Mystique's blood to make Nimrods. Why does no one figure out that the real priority is destroying Trask's files & infrastructure? That way nobody will ever be able to make Nimrods. Even with Trask arrested & Nixon saved, there is no way somebody won't revive the Sentinel program next time another mutant throws a public temper tantrum.It was an epic fail to not use the iconic poster & the Sentinels melting Logan down to his bones. Boo to killing most of the First Class cast offscree!Quicksilver & Blink were awesome! I love how sadistic the Nimrods were!If Magneto was implicated in killing JFK, why wouldn't the government just execute him?Magneto reading Trask's files to learn how to control them was a good idea. What wasn't a good idea is to have Magneto split railroad tracks into wires & then insert them into the Sentinels in what must be a delicate procedure from outside the traincars. That's just incredulous. Is he controlling the Sentinels like marionettes via the new wires in their limbs or did he reverse the polarity of the mutant detectors? How did he make them follow his voice commands too?Xavier & Beast turning off their powers with a miracle serum was offensively dumb. Magneto was absolutely right that they let everyone die while they hid away trying to be normal. Professor Xavier is a jerk!

I would give this movie a 'pretty good' rating. It was just another X-men movie, nothing too special. I like First Class and X2 better. I do like that X3 has been retconned out. I wish they would have at least explained a little where Shadowcat got her abilities to send consciousness's back in time though.Overall it was fine, but it's not a must-see unless you just happen to be a big X-men movie fan.

One thing that really bothered me was Collosus. He seemed VERY de-powered. In the comics, he's one of the strongest characters in the whole damn MU. Definitely not here. However, Quicksilver being way MORE powerful, more like Flash, was an absolute joy. Easily the best edition to the franchise.

And how the hell does Wolverine have metal claws in the future?

Anyhoo, I enjoyed the movie, I think their going in the right direction, I'm looking forward to the next one, and trying to explain how Wolverine doesn't remember the next 40 years should be interesting. BUT, I was still disappointed in some continuity issues (shocking!), and I would've liked more scenes in the future.

I wanted to enjoy this movie, I really did. However, when Magneto ripped RFK Stadium up and out of the ground, there was a stadium employee chalking the field for a baseball game. If this was set in 1973, there would have been no baseball at RFK as the Senators left for Texas in 1971. Ruined the whole film for me. Not kidding.

Did anyone notice Bryan singer giving a nod to his previous X-Men movie when Magneto got his helmet back? The scene with the ball bearings was almost shot for shot the same as Magneto breaking out of the plastic prison.

“It’s not healthy for us,” says Singer. “I’ll tell you
why: they’re both comic-books and at some point you can expand the
universes, that’s where the comparison ends.

“The Marvel universes – particularly Avengers and Iron Man – are… and it sounds defensive, and it is defensive, but only because people make comparisons between [X-Men: Days Of Future Past] andThe Avengers, which is ludicrous.

“The Avengers is a mash-up of massive single character
franchises of incredibly familiar characters and Iron Man. And did I
mention Iron Man? Oh, and by the way – Iron Man.

“They are huge, colossal franchises that are peppered with all these
other characters that are, again, extremely famous and so yes, Fox will
at some point synergise [the X-Men] characters and that process is
slowly beginning, but it’s very different than taking movies that gross
close to a billion dollars and then pushing them together into these
giant broad movies.

“If you want to give me Robert Downey Jr in a metal suit and have him join the X-Men, then yes, let’s go head-to-head [with Marvel Studios].”

@IamMe I guess Magneto could have broken her out at some point, after he found a way to break out of Pentagon prison.What bothered me was that Mystique has never been able to copy powers (even in the movies), all she can do is mimic appearance. So how does that ability to change appearance translate into copying mutant abilities? That seems more up Rogue's alley.

@Dancore metal claws come from experiments performed on him by the military (or something military-ish). he went back in time to before that happened. I thought this was pretty cool as right when he woke up in the bed I was thinking it would be cool if they sent him back far enough for that

@Dr_Hoops_Shoblotnik I have not problems with that being an issue for you. Some things just stick in my brain and bother me. One of my issues with X-men Origins: Wolverine was that the first humvee prototype would not have been completed when the army was chasing Logan around with a fleet of them.

@Dr_Hoops_Shoblotnik As "That Guy" who felt that FIRST CLASS was ruined for him by seeing the Bay of Pigs fleet being led by the USS Missouri and USS Iowa, despite the Iowa-class battleships all being in mothballs between 1951 and 1967 (and those two in particular being in mothballs the entire time between 1951 and 1982), I salute you, sir!

@Anony-Mouse@IamMe The Nimrods were only only doing physical adaptations much like how mystique changes her proportions & skin texture. They couldn't mimic non-physical powers like telepathy & teleportation like Rogue could've.

@mrsir (Professor X here once more argues that the genius of time-traveling humans like Doctor Doom and Kang/Rama Tut aren't enough to explain the strange technology found from early Egypt, instead claiming that the rockets on the Sphinx are more evidence for his 'Ancient Apocalypse' theories...)

@jaganar@Devilsrevolver First that was Jean Grey and Scott Summers, aka Cyclops, Rogue was there at the academy which means she still retained her powers, that also means that none of that Dark Phoenix saga crap and the death of Cyclops never happened along with the whole experimental drug thing that eliminates mutant powers. Those two things pretty much were all of the plot of the third movie.

@EvilMonkeyPope@Anony-Mouse@IamMeOh, it looked to me like they were copying Iceman's, Sunspot's and Colossus's powers. That would be different from Mystique, who could make herself look like and iced over Iceman, but she wouldn't be cold to the touch.

I'd still be willing to let that slide if they had just explained where Kitty's time travelling conscience powers came from.

@Brian@mrsir So Apocalypse is an Earthbender? Apparently Singer saw the A on Apocalypse's belt buckle & the A on Avalanche's chest & decided to combine the two into one character. Of course movie Apocalypse won't have any A's on his costume.

ok the kelly thing , well only hard core comic fans are gonna be mad about that .

*not NERDS just comic fans*

on raven , maggy approached it the way he is used to , ie the way that gets stuff done (you can only talk so much just ask PUTIN and the hostage KREMIA) , ill scratch her up to having a frank castle / anakin level of villany (being a killer when it suits her and when the person deserves it).

XD did she kill stryker and then mess with wolverine afterward in the project

@FabioRezende@Devilsrevolver@jaganar it was both 2023 and 1973 they said he would be the only one who would remember both histories, the one that was and the one that wasn't so technically I suppose the wolverine that the professor knew ceased to exist in a way the moment wolverine woke up from his time nap.

@Devilsrevolver@FabioRezende@jaganar That doesn't mean they didn't met in the 1990s again. When Wolverine woke up from drowning in the end of the movie, it was 1973 Wolverine again, not 2023 Wolverine, so he didn't remember anything. And Prof X is the kind of douche who would spend 25 years pretending not to remember him as well.

Everything future filmmakers want to have happened after 1973, still happened, Everything they don't want to have happened, didn't (safe to assume Dark Phoenix, Taylor Kitsch Gambit and Deadpool fall under that category)

@FabioRezende@Devilsrevolver@jaganar well then it at least retcons the 3rd movie out of existence, but I think it also eliminates the first two as well, because Professor X was like waiting for the wolverine he knew to come back, because there is that whole, welcome back old friend moment when he says everything after 1973.